3N-COUNT 牢骚满腹者;爱抱怨的人 If you say that someone is a misery, you are critical of them because they are always com-plaining. 牢骚满腹者;爱抱怨的人 [mainly British, informal, disapproval]
I'm not such a misery now! I gave up drink a few years back and that has changed things a lot.
4PHRASE 使生活痛苦;使日子不好过 If someone makes your life a misery, they behave in an unpleasant way towards you over a period of time and make you very unhappy. 使生活痛苦;使日子不好过
...the gangs of kids who make our lives a misery.
弄得我们日子不得安宁的那几帮孩子
5PHRASE (告诉某人其急于想知道的事)消除…的忧虑 If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know. (告诉某人其急于想知道的事)消除…的忧虑 [informal]
Please put me out of my misery. How do you do it?
别让我着急了。你是怎样做的?
6PHRASE 将(动物)人工致死以结束其痛苦 If you put an animal out of its misery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed. 将(动物)人工致死以结束其痛苦
ADJECTIVE | VERB + MISERY | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤abject, great, real, sheer, untold極度的痛苦;巨大的痛苦◇This phobia can cause untold misery for the sufferer.這種恐懼症能給患者造成極度的痛苦。➤complete痛苦到極點◇Her misery was made complete when she was separated from her children.她被迫與孩子們分開時痛苦到了極點。➤personal個人的痛苦➤human人類的苦難➤economic經濟上的窘困◇the country's economic misery該國經濟的窘困VERB + MISERY➤be full of, endure, feel, live in, suffer滿心痛苦;忍受痛苦;感到痛苦;生活在痛苦中;遭受痛苦◇people who suffer the misery of unemployment遭受失業之苦的人們➤bring (sb), cause (sb), create, inflict(給某人)帶來痛苦;引起(某人的)痛苦;造成痛苦◇The money brought him nothing but misery.那筆錢帶給他的只有痛苦。➤add to, heap, prolong增加/加劇/延長痛苦◇War has now added to the misery of these starving people.如今戰爭令這些饑民的日子雪上加霜。◇This financial blow heaps more misery on the community.這一經濟打擊加劇了社會的苦難。➤alleviate, ease, relieve減輕/緩解/解除痛苦◇ways to alleviate human misery減輕人類苦難的方法➤end結束苦難▸➤put sb/sth out of將⋯人工致死以解除其痛苦;消除⋯的憂慮◇In the end we asked the vet to put the creature out of its misery (= kill it humanely).最終我們請獸醫給這可憐的動物人道毀滅以結束其痛苦。◇Oh, put her out of her misery-tell her who won. (humorous) 哦,別讓她受罪了 - 告訴她誰贏了。➤spare sb使某人免受痛苦◇At least we were spared the misery of having to do it all again.至少我們得以免受全部重做之苦。➤share (especially NAmE) 分擔痛苦▸➤forget忘記痛苦PREPOSITION➤misery of⋯的痛苦◇the sheer misery of homelessness無家可歸的極度痛苦PHRASES➤make sb's life a misery使某人的生活沒有樂趣◇His constant criticism made her life a misery.他沒完沒了的指責使她的生活痛苦不堪。